The Bahamas adopted substantial economic presence requirements

The Bahamas follow many other jurisdictions by adopting substantial economic presence requirements: activities must be

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) adopts economic substance requirements

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) adopts economic substance requirements applicable from 1 Ianuarie 2019 (with

Mauritius is terminating its Global Business Companies (GBC)

Mauritius is phasing out their Global Business Companies (GBC) on the 30 Iunie 2021. Only

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Barbados saysnoto Intellectual Property

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Belize IBCs banned to be holding companies

It is not very surprising that Belize continues to shoot itself in the foot. It

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and their Sovereign

While it is not in the interest of this blog to talk about digital currencies,…

Comoros: Anjouan and Mwali do NOT have financial services

There was a time when Anjouan had a (temporary) financial market (gone since 2005). Another

How Trump will affect US entities for non-US residents?

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Belize IBC: fee increase from US$100 to US$200 since 1st April 2016

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